Skilled foreign workers

[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7605455.stm"][/URL]"Some professions, such as construction, catering and IT, were deemed to have a shortage but the committee decided it would not be "sensible" to include them on the list. It said it did not want to deter firms from training British workers to fill vacancies."

Unofficially, the LSC has identified a problem where certain types of work for which a significant portion of the training is delivered "on the job". It would seem the influx of skilled labour from the EU and other countries has created a counter-national language barrier that inhibits the delivery of said training.

Naturally, if a foreign national has the linguistic skills to meet the QTS in English then there is no justifiable reason, academically speaking, to prevent them from teaching the British their own language.